HYMENOPTERA. 



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104. SCOLIA COSTALIS. B.M. 



Campsomeris costalis, St. Farg. Hym, iii. 497- 2 $ . 

 Hab. Brazil. 



105. SCOLIA IRREGULARIS. B.M. 



Female. Length 11-12 lines. — Black: strongly punctured, 

 the vertex and disk of the thorax having the punctures scattered ; 

 the wings fuscous, the anterior margin of the superior wings 

 darkest, and varied by irregularly scattered subhyaline spots ; 

 the metathorax has a sericeous pile, the legs have their spines 

 and pubescence black. Abdomen slightly sericeous, the basal 

 segment having two transverse subquadrate yellow maculae ; the 

 second segment has two subquadrate maculae placed laterally, 

 and the third an ovate spot on each side. 



Var. /3. The spots on the basal segment reduced to minute 

 ovate spots ; the maculae on the two following segments reduced 

 to half their usual size. 



Male. — Resembles the female, but has the collar yellow, con- 

 tinued to the insertion of the wings ; a minute dot on the tegulae, 

 and the scutellum and post-scutellum yellow. The basal seg- 

 ment of the abdomen has a transverse subinterrupted line, 

 widest towards the lateral margins ; and the second and third 

 segments a similar line at their apical margins ; the apex armed 

 with three acute spines. 



Hab. Brazil. 



106. SCOLIA CONSPICUA. B.M. 



Female. Length 8i lines. — Black and shining, the face 

 closely and deeply punctured, the vertex impunctate, its margin 

 fringed with black hairs. Thorax : the prothorax deeply punc- 

 tured, the mesothorax having a few scattered large punctures ; 

 the scutellum and post-scutellum sulphur-yellow and impunctate, 

 as well as the metathorax in the centre at its base ; the wings 

 subhyaline ; a black stripe, commencing near the apex of the 

 externo-medial cell, occupies the first submarginal and mar- 

 ginal cells, terminating a little before the apex of the wings. 

 Abdomen : the basal segment sulphur-yellow above, its margins 

 and extreme base black, the second segment having two large 

 subovate maculae which occupy nearly the entire segment above. 

 The legs have the spines black, and a scattered white pubescence 

 intermixed ; at the base of the abdomen are a few scattered 

 white hairs, the sides and apical segments fringed with black 

 pubescence. 



Hab. Brazil (Para). (H. W. Bates.) 



